“all flourishing is mutual… We spill over into the world and the world spills over into us.”
― Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
WHAT IS Transpersonal PSYCHOlogY?
The Transpersonal model is an integrative, whole-person approach that draws on elements from different schools of psychological theory and research — as well as a person’s own lived experience — to foster psycho-spiritual well-being.
My approach to Transpersonal Psychotherapy brings a Western psychotherapeutic model together with Buddhist psychology, liberation psychologies, feminist psychotherapy, earth-based and animist traditions, and somatic psychology — and includes recovering ancestral wisdom lost through colonization and the impacts of capitalism and other systems of oppression.
Transpersonal Psychotherapy invites us to move from ego to eco-consciousness… to go beyond (trans) our individual stories (personal). In this way, we place our healing within a context of interdependence and collective liberation.
At the same time, Transpersonal Psychotherapy includes an invitation into embodiment, where our very lives are the vehicle for awakening and well-being.
You can read more about the integration of Western psychotherapeutic practices with Buddhist psychology in this New York Times article featuring Mark Epstein, MD, and this article with Tara Brach, PhD at the American Psychological Association.
Learn more about my approach here.
“We are not alone in our struggles, and never have been. Somos almas afines [We are related souls] and this interconnectedness is an unvoiced category of identity.”
—GLORIA ANZALDÚA, American scholar of Chicana feminism, cultural theory, and queer theory
